Spiritual Brothers
When Hitler and Stalin concluded their infamous nonaggression pact, on August 23, 1939, they both knew this was the signal for WW2 to begin. The world wasn't good enough for two such monsters.Just how alike they were?
Valeria Prokhorova, a muscovite who was a student during the uneasy Nazi-Soviet alliance and then witnessed the battle for Moscow, calls Hitler and Stalin "spiritual brothers". Like many of her generation, she has plenty of reasons to feel that way: The memory of family members and friends who perished in Stalin's succesive waves of terror in the 1930's and, after the war, her arrest on trumped-up charges that led to 6 years in the hell of the Gulag.
The main difference between the two men, she maintains, was of style. "Stalin reminds me of a murderer who comes with flowers and candy, while Hitler stands there with a knife and a pistol".
Text taken from the book: The Greatest Battle.
Copyright (c) 2007...By: Andrew Nagorski
Now those Stalinist lovers knows who their Russian hero
really was.
Comments (2)
Anyway, the Russian Empire was known as the Eastern block
he was a tyrant man.